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EDITORIAL
Today, August 9, 2017, happens to be the seventyfifth anniversary of the ‘Quit India’ movement also known as the August Revolution that, alongwith the Azad Hind Fauj’s daring exploits in South-East Asia right up to the borders of (...)

To the Prime Minister of India, Chief Ministers of the States, and Lieutenant-Governors of the Union Territories,
We are a group of Veterans of the Indian Armed Forces who have spent our careers working for the security of our country. (...)

I vainly search for my favourite television anchors like Karan Thapar and, more recently, Barkha Dutt. I am told that they have been taken off. Who has done this is a matter of conjecture. Some say that it is the pressure of the Narendra Modi (...)

MUSINGS
Today, there is not just dismay but sorrow spreading out, as this land is in the grip of a political mafia, holding sway on all possible fronts. Hopelessness all around, to such an extent that I don’t really feel ‘azaad’ in this Azaad (...)

You might know that India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University—consistently placed at the top of the list of India’s best institutions of higher learning—has been much in the disapproving eye of the political forces that now govern the country.
The chief (...)

by Arun Srivastava
Now there is no more ambiguity. What a coincidence the closely guarded secret was out on Wednesday in the public domain with Nitish announcing his decision to break the maha-gathbandhan and going to the BJP fold. It was not (...)

by Vahidha Nizam
The health wing of the RSS, Arogya Bharati, has been holding programmes to create ‘fair, tall and intelligent’ babies. Tailor-made ‘designer babies’, the experts of Arogya Bharati claim, can be ‘produced’ using what is called (...)

From N.C.’s Writings
August 9 this year marked the 75th anniversary of the ‘Quit India‘ movement also known as the August Revolution. On this occasion we reproduce the piece of N.C. published in Mainstream twentyfive years ago on August 8, 1992 on (...)

by Atanu Sengupta and Sanjoy De
An Instant Pill
In the evening hours on a cold November 8, 2016, the de facto head of the Union Government promulgated a new message. A strict restriction was imposed on the use of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency (...)

There is a long history of Russia being kicked around as a political football in the United States. The circumstances leading to the latest Russia Sanctions Bill passed by the US Congress has a striking similarity with the so-called (...)